Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!usenet.ukfsn.org!not-for-mail From: Martin Gregorie Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Arithmetic overflow checking Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:52:15 +0000 (UTC) Organization: UK Free Software Network Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <015aeb15-57db-48ab-9cd4-77f8448b632f@w24g2000yqw.googlegroups.com> <1f9c17dltrhlmhifuigoa914477r4rg1e1@4ax.com> <09fe171s46ilvq9qmn254dctunm6noh0ps@4ax.com> <4e262731$0$314$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <4e26300b$0$309$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <4e2769dc$0$314$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <43MVp.69006$_I7.9664@newsfe08.iad> NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.45.235.129 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: localhost.localdomain 1311252735 8051 84.45.235.129 (21 Jul 2011 12:52:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@localhost.localdomain NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:52:15 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:6339 On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 23:21:53 -0300, Arved Sandstrom wrote: > Talking about Java specifically, SE or EE, there is a great deal of > advance warning. You're typically going to have close to a decade of > warning that you need to make certain modifications, if a version at > some point introduces backwards incompatibilities. This is more than > enough time. > Arguably, the delay in removing deprecated features (which amounts to the same thing) is a waste of time: Y2K showed us that, with absolutely nothing being done ahead of time in most shops, the result was the expensive last minute panic. In fact, you can make the opposite argument: delay too long and there will be nobody left who remembers which programs might be affected or even that there is a problem. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |